This paper discusses the reformist discourses on the Namboodiri women who were objectified as a constituent of a stagnant community that adhered to primitive life forms. Responding to it, the reformist discourses on Namboodiri women that attained momentum in the 1920s and 1930s reached the level of demanding complete freedom of women in the 1940s. The male-centred women reformism later assumed autonomy and launched struggles to change their status inside and outside the family. Namboodiri women's emancipation movement gradually demanded complete women's freedom by changing the traditional concept of women to that of modern women who lived by their work. A close look at the changes of the Namboodiri women would reflect the transformation of women from scripture education (learning in epics and Puranas) in the 19th and early 20th century to the reading of literature like “Pavangal‟, “Chintavishtayaya Seetha‟, “Ramanan‟ by 1940s.i